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Firebird
Perumal Murugan
Muthu, an everyman, is cut adrift when his father divides up the family farmland and leaves him with almost nothing. His search for a new home pushes his family into uncharted territory. It won the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature.
Vivek’s Notes
Winner of the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature, about a man called Muthu, an everyman on a quest for permanence in a world where no such thing exists. It's a question triggered when his father cuts up the family farmland, leaving him with almost nothing and pushing his family into uncharted territory, financially, geographically and figuratively.
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